Word: betraying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...book's central characters--a British war correspondent and a Confederate nurse--spy for the Union. Each believes that the South will fail and that the war is a pointless tragedy. Though they betray information on the size and location of Confederate forces, the Union army in Virginia fails to respond in time. The fighting plods on; the war captures the nation...
...final candidates for his serious consideration. It would be harder for Bok to make a decision against the students' and faculty's wishes, in the face of this public student position. An open process would make the president more accountable to students and faulty and less likely to betray them, because their views would be publicly know...
...owned. Robinson, 37, who lives with her husband and two sons in Massachusetts, grew up in Sandpoint, Idaho, before majoring in English at Brown and earning a Ph.D. at the University of Washington. Though she says that Housekeeping is "totally not autobiographical," the novel's vivid landscapes betray the presence of an author who lived among them, just as the prose points to someone who studies and loves language. She is now working slowly on a second novel, writing paragraphs here and there when the spirit moves her. "It will come when it comes," she says. That...
...that Christopher did not even have a chance to present the Pakistani ruler with the official U.S. gift. While Brzezinski clowned and traded quips with the press, Christopher, whose boss, Cyrus Vance, was Brzezinski's bitterest bureaucratic foe, patiently studied his briefing books. Not once did he betray his annoyance. Staunch discretion and a willingness to let others take credit have been the building blocks of Christopher's career. Those qualities, say admirers, have made him an ideal chief negotiator for the Iranian hostage situation. Quiet and imperturbably dogged, he is the master of thankless tasks...
...search for their killers-and the precious equations they were killed for-leads Detective George C. Scott to Germany and Switzerland and to involvement not only with remnants of the Third Reich but with modern terrorists as well, among them Marthe Keller, who is assigned to seduce and then betray Scott...